The best NL trad song is "Let Me Fish of Cape St. Mary's" which is Newfoundland written and about Newfoundland. Stan Rogers did do a version though, which is as good as any done by an Newfoundlander.

The Tragically Hip do capture the essence of Ontario, or at least the Ontario outside Toronto which has a more complicated essence that the Hip cannot entirely capture. Anyway, Bobcaygeon is the most obvious and an excellent choice but Fireworks from the same album also works. Lots of other candidates too.

A lot of what they would have played would have been from Ireland but at least as much would have been from NL and just sounded Irish, at least in that part of Newfoundland which is predominantly Irish. Music is different in other parts. Definitely fond of the Pogues across the province. Maybe some Cape Breton songs,…

I will admit that there are not many great rock bands in NL because the trad scene sucks up so much attention and money. But while the Nova Scotia rock scene on the whole is better, there is nothing better than Hey Rosetta!.

I don't know that Justified is the best show on television but it's the one I like the most.

I'm glad these people are coming back to TV. Since Chuck went off the air I've been wanting to eat a foot long sub but cannot for the life of me recall how much they cost. $15 dollars? That seems a bit much? $4… nah, that's not it. If only someone would remind me what they cost and where I can get one.

Serious work on this installment O'Neal. Densely layered with hyperlinks, multiple videos and analysis.

I enjoyed the show because of Jennifer Aniston's frequently erect nipples.

They don't have to. They won. C'mon, sober up and get with the program.

I know three guys named Herb. One is a nice, quiet lawyer. The second is a complete fucking asshole. The third wears white belts and is fictional. And here's the thing: all of them pronounce the "H" in their name as if they were a British plant. But none of them are British and I doubt any of them have even been there.

Thread of the week right here folks.

I had a variety of lifeguarding jobs. The worst one paid $6/hr and involved me supervising an almost entirely empty toilet-sized pool in the basement of a dilapidated health club. Every couple of hours some old ladies would show up to do an aqua-fit class and I would have to pretend to look at them.

BREAKING: You make poor life choices!

I blew up a nursing home!

Similar story: I hail from a place where Fun Yuns are not available. But in my travels one day I came across them. I had been advised that Fun Yuns were the bomb, yo, and so I tried them. They were not the bomb.

Nah, NYT was probably down because of a Denial-of-Service attack. When that happens, folks looking for hard news either go to the Wall Street Journal or here. The Tolerability Index comment section yesterday was full of people complaining it was the worst Krugman column they'd ever read. It was soon clarified for them…

What do you, live under a rock? He's been all over the news this week for something called "twerking" which, I believe, is caused by exposure to sarin and also causes tongue protrusion.

You know, I've heard this said about any number of different men. And every single time I am personally offended.

What a charming lyric. Did you write that just for this occasion. To what tune should I sing it?

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